[Canuck]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Mosasaurs may not be the strangest animals on this list, but they are certainly worthy of the name "sea monster." Before they fell to the same fate as the nonavian dinosaurs, this group of marine reptiles roamed the world's oceans, chowing down on almost anything that moved, including other mosasaurs. A 2014 study in the journal Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS estimated that the mosasaur Mosasaurus hoffmanni grew to be around 56 feet (17 m) long.

Before noon on Nov 3 I had never heard of this sea creature. I was visiting the city museum in Courtney BC with our grandson and saw the skeleton remains of this Mameluke discovered on the banks of the Puntledge river in 1988. Estimated to be 80,000,000 years old it was discovered with other fossils.

The area was estimated to be 25-40 degrees warmer back then and it could have been tropical.

Check out the museum website.

https://www.courtenaymuseum.ca/